Freaked Quote by Maureen Johnson

No one hid their interest when I walked into the room. I'm not sure if it was the news about Boo or my general…

— Maureen Johnson

There was a kind of madness in the country. Eamon De Valera, the prime minister, had this vision of an Ireland where we'd all…

— Frank McCourt

For people looking in, it might have seemed like the Troubles was the focal point of Derry life but, from stories I've heard, it…

— Jamie-Lee O'Donnell

It was horrifying. You wouldn't believe how people are treated there. You could see that these people had withdrawn so far that they just…

— Kate Millett

I took my two daughters to the 2003 All-Ireland between Armagh and Tyrone and they were blown away by the whole pageantry and everything…

— Martin O'Neill

I think there's something about the Irish experience - that we had to have a sense of humor or die.

— Frank McCourt

It did not seem to me that prejudice, poverty, discrimination, repression and racism were confined to the North of Ireland. I could see them…

— Bernadette Devlin

The same thing could have happened on Halloween if somebody in the neighborhood had jumped out and scared him.

— Walt Disney

It's an extraordinary thing, this tiny little province of Northern Ireland, where carnage happened. And I was part of it. I grew up in…

— Liam Neeson

I think I realised there were two communities in Northern Ireland when I was about nine or 10, not because there was any trouble…

— Liam Neeson

The air seemed poisoned with fear and hatred. People eyed on another suspiciously, and the streets smelled of a silence that knotted your stomach.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Two Irishmen were passing a pub - well, it could happen.

— Frank Carson